ARCCO eBulletin
This issue of ARCCO's e-bulletin contains
everything you need to know about the upcoming three-days planned
exclusively for ARCCO members. Below you will find schedules and agendas
for all events including the Member’s Forum, Face to Face with
Funders, ARCCO AGM (complete with the bios of the nominated new Board
members) as well as information about ARCCO’s Best Practices
Workshop Series Part 3, GOVERNANCE: TAKING INVENTORY. This professional
development workshop, which is also open to IMAA Members, has been
organised in direct response to requests from our members. To ensure
that this weekend is productive, ARCCO has confirmed the participation
of knowledgeable resource people and representatives of funding bodies
who will present information and respond to our questions. You won't
want to miss this valuable opportunity!
arcco e-bulletin vol.3 #2
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Important Member Dates
and Information
July 1, 2005: ARCCO Membership Fees are past due.
Please submit new membership renewal form with payment ASAP.
November 18 to 20, 2005 in Toronto: Members Forum,
Governance Workshop & ARCCO AGM
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YOUR check list
[ ] CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE to
each activity
Please RSVP to the ARCCO office by email ASAP, so we can plan for
the appropriate number of participants.
[ ] PRINT OUT THE ARCCO MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION FORM
The membership and registration form is included as an attachment
for anyone who has not already filled it out. This is the same form
that was sent to you by email earlier this fall.
[ ] PAY YOUR MEMBERSHIP & REGISTRATION FEE
If you haven't already submitted the forms to the ARCCO office, then
please bring the membership/registration form and a cheque with you.
There will be a registration table where you can complete your registration
when you arrive. Please note that the AGM is open to ARCCO members
only.
[ ] REGISTRATION FEE & FORM for GOVERNANCE: TAKING INVENTORY
Workshop
Spaces are limited for this workshop. Registration is based on a first
come, first serve basis. If you haven’t already registered yet
please contact the ARCCO office, by phone or email, so that we can
hold space/s for you. You can bring your registration form with a
cheque to Toronto Arts Council, where the workshop is being held,
but you must contact the ARCCO office ASAP, to confirm your registration.
MEMBERSHIP FEES: Fees were due as of July 1, 2005
and all members are required to pay their fees prior to participating
in these events. Please see the fee structure on the second page of
the attachment.
FEES: A registration fee of $100 is to be paid by
all member centres as agreed upon April 15, 2002. The funds go toward
travel subsidy for members outside of Toronto.
BOARD MEMBERS: All Board members please note that
you must pay the membership and registration fee to maintain the membership
of your centre. [ ] TRAVEL
SUBSIDIES TO ATTEND AGM
Travel subsidy is available for ARCCO members only, for one representative
per centre. The travel subsidy fund cannot exceed the total registration
fees collected. ARCCO will aim for 100% reimbursement of eligible
travel costs; however, it may be necessary to pro-rate at a lower
percentage. There is no travel subsidy form. Please save your receipts
for actual costs, i.e.: gas receipts for travel by car, economy
air/train/bus travel and submit to ARCCO by mail after our meetings.
Please note that this does not include in-town travel (buses, cabs,
parking, etc.). The ARCCO mailing address is listed below.
[ ] ARRIVE ON TIME
We will start all events on time according to the following schedules.
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Agenda
for Members Forum, and Meeting with Funders
Friday, November 18, 2005
Location: OCAD Annex, Room 1320, 113 McCaul Street, Toronto
Please Note:
This session will take place in
Room 1320 of OCAD. The room is in the OCAD Annex - not in
the Sharpe Centre - on the east side of McCaul in the Village
on the Grange. The street entrance has purple signage and is just
south of McDonald’s. From there, proceed through the food court,
past the security desk to the elevators. The room is on the third
floor at the end of the hallway on the right hand side.
| 9:30
am – 10:00 am |
Registration
10am-10:30am Presentation: Financial Planning |
| Presenter: |
Ralph Collins, Investment
Advisor |
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Ralph Collins will provide an overview
of Financial Planning (geared to organizations as well
as your personal plans) and cover topics such as market
based investments, RSPs and retirement savings.
Ralph Collins, MBA, CFP has been working for 16 years
in the field of financial and investment planning. Ralph
is currently an Account Manager at Alterna Savings in
Toronto. |
| 10:30
am - 10:45 am |
Break |
| 10:45
am - 11:45 pm |
Members
Strategy Session |
| Facilitator: |
Danielle Tremblay,
ARCCO President |
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In preparation for our members
meeting with the funders in the afternoon, this will be
YOUR opportunity to share your concerns with the other
members and arrange a list of issues and questions for
the afternoon session. Please come prepared, with questions/and
issues that you would like to discuss or put forward in
preparation for our time with councils. During this session,
we'll be creating a speakers list with questions for the
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Face to Face with
the Funders
1:00
pm - 4:30 pm
Co-Facilitators:
Danielle Tremblay, ARCCO President; Greg Woodbury,
ARCCO Secretary
This year, ARCCO has invited
funders from both federal and provincial agencies to participate
in a half day of dialogue with our members from across the province.
We are pleased to have representatives from The Canada Council
for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Ontario Trillium
Foundation. This important forum enables funders to present
new program initiatives and program criteria, to review their
mandates with the membership and provide direct feedback to
members’ questions. This session also provides a unique
opportunity for the membership to address their concerns collectively,
and learn about new programs, as well as changes to programs
and budgets which affect artist-run centres.
| 1:00
pm - 2:00 pm |
Canada
Council for the Arts |
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François Lachapelle, Head of
the Visual Arts Section
Jim Logan, Program Officer
Sue-Ellen Gerritsen, Program Officer |
| 2:15
pm - 3:15 pm |
Ontario
Arts Council |
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Carolyn Vesely, Visual and Media Arts
Officer
Lisa Wöhrle, Associate Visual and Media Arts Officer |
| 3:15
pm - 4:15 pm |
Ontario
Trillium Foundation |
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Julia Howell, Program Manager |
| 5:00
pm - 6:30 pm |
RECEPTION
at Gallery TPW |
| Location: |
Gallery TPW,
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite #310 |
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Please join us for a cocktail reception
on Friday from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., hosted at Gallery TPW,
located at 80 Spadina (#310/Third floor) – a short
10 minute walk from OCAD. Gallery TPW is currently featuring
work by Quebec based collaborative Doyon-Rivest who use
a self-branding trademark as a primary means of communication.
Through installation, photography and printed ephemera
they appropriate the aesthetic and analytic terms of advertising
and raise questions about the relationship between art
systems and corporate culture. |
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ARCCO Best Practice Workshop Series, Part 3
GOVERNANCE:
TAKING INVENTORY
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2005: 10 AM - 5 PM
Toronto Arts Council, 141 Bathurst Street, Toronto
Saturday,
November 19, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Taking Inventory
Governance Issues for Staff and Board at Media and Visual Artist-Run
Centres
This workshop, designed exclusively for ARCCO
and IMAA members - will aim to demystify governance,
and focus on providing realistic approaches to the core issues
of governance at your centres. It will be a full day of information
sharing in order to address governance challenges faced by the
artist-run sector. A wide range of topics will be covered, including
an overview of board models, board roles and responsibilities,
recruitment, orientation, development/training, planning, evaluation,
succession planning, as well as board relationship with staff
and members.
The morning will consist of information session with consultant
Judy Wolfe. Judy will provide an overview of governance and
share her observations of the recurring thematic challenges
that she has observed within the artist run sector, over the
last 3 years.
The morning session will be followed by an afternoon Panel
Discussion where panelists will provide pragmatic examples
from their own experience. Following the panel discussion, all
panelists and participants will participate in one Roundtable
Discussion that will follow up on issues raised during
the panel presentations.
Panelists: Roberto
Ariganello, Director, Liaison of Independent
Filmmakers; Natalie DeVito, Mercer Union;
Jessie Lacayo, Director, Gallery 101;
Penny McCann, Director, SAW Video; Clive
Robertson, Board Member Modern Fuel Artist-Run
Centre and Fado Performance Inc.
Facilitator: Gary
Hall, Executive Director, Gallery TPW. |
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Who should attend? Key staff and board members including
Director, Coordinator, President, and members of the Board of Directors.
See registration form for details.
Acknowledgements:
Produced with funding support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation
and special thanks to Toronto Arts Council Foundation.
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
Location: OCAD Annex, Room 1320, 113 McCaul
Street, Toronto
AGENDA
| 12:30
pm - 1:00 pm |
Registration
and Sign-in |
| 1:00
pm - 3:00 pm |
Annual General
Meeting |
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Danielle Tremblay,
President |
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Opening Remarks and Introduction
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| Agenda |
1.0 Welcome and Call to Order President
1.1 Approval of the Agenda President
1.2 Approval of Minutes from October 3, 2004 President
1.3 President’s Address President
1.4 Welcome New ARCCO Members President
1.5 Treasurer’s Report Treasurer
1.6 Appointment of the Auditor Treasurer
1.7 Proposed Bylaw Change President
1.8 Election of Directors President
1.9 New Business President
1.10 Adjournment |
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| BIOS OF THE
CANDIDATES |
Penny McCann
Penny McCann is a media artist, curator, and director
of SAW Video, an artist-run video production and presentation
centre in Ottawa. Active in the arts community for over a decade,
Penny served as chair of the board of Galerie SAW Video from
1992-95 and as president of the Independent Film and Video Alliance
(now IMAA) from 1996-99. She has also been an active member
of Available Light Screening Collective, an experimental film
and video exhibition collective in Ottawa. As a practicing media
artist, she has screened and exhibited her work at festivals
and galleries throughout Canada and internationally.
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Heather Webb
Heather Webb is a Toronto-based arts administrator,
art historian and published poet with 14 years of experience
working in public galleries and artist-run centres. She worked
at the National Gallery of Canada as a Curatorial Assistant,
Canadian Art Dept., and as Assistant Archivist from 1991-1997
and her desire to work with artist-run centres was cemented
during her secondment in 1996 to Art Metropole to work on the
AM archive collection with AA Bronson in advance of its deposit
with the National Gallery of Canada.
Since leaving the NGC, Heather has been the Director of Artspace,
Peterborough’s artist-run centre, from 1998-2000 and was
hired as the Associate Director at Open Studio in 2000. Since
March 2003 she has been the Director at Open Studio and was
responsible for carrying out the physical relocation of the
centre in December 2003. Heather
Webb has an MA in Art History from Concordia University with
a specialization in contemporary Canadian art.
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Report
from Nominations Committee
Chair and President Danielle Tremblay
The focus of the Board of Directors over this past year has been on
implementing ARCCO’s Strategic Plan, goals and developing the
organization. In keeping with these goals, the board established a
nominations committee to prepare for the upcoming elections. The mandate
of this year's committee was to acknowledge ARCCO's priorities, and
consider the skills and representation required to best fill the vacancies
and to build a well balanced and effective board. We consulted with
many members to determine their interest in serving on the board and
came up with our recommendation.
The Nominations Committee presented their recommendations to the board
and the following proposal was accepted by the board to present to
the membership at the AGM.
Nominated for election at the AGM:
New Board members
Penny McCann, SAW Video
Heather Webb, Open Studio
Current Board Members, continuing
their terms for 2005-2006
Danielle Tremblay, ARCCO President (served on ARCCO board
for 5 years, 2005-06 is last term)
Jessie Lacayo, ARCCO Vice-President (second year
of first term)
Christine Burchnall, ARCCO Treasurer (served on the
ARCCO board for 5 years)
Clive Robertson, Board Member at large (first year
of first term)
Retiring Board Members
Jeffrey Matt, Board Member at large, (retired from position
on September 15, 2005)
Greg Woodbury, ARCCO Secretary (finishing his 2nd
year and retiring from board)
On behalf of the ARCCO, the board extends a warm thanks to Greg Woodbury
and Jeffrey Matt for their valuable contribution to the development
of ARCCO. ARCCO wishes you continued success in all of your future
projects and endeavours.
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ARCCO
P.O. Box 44026, Market Tower Lane Postal Outlet
141 Dundas Street, London, Ontario N6A 5S5
email: jewel.goodwyn@sympatico.ca
ARCCO Vol.3
No.2 Credits
ARCCO ED, Jewell Goodwyn
Editor, Gary Hall
Production, Rachel Ma
| Contact
Jewell Goodwyn
ARCCO Executive Director
(519) 672-7898 |
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